Sam Altman’s OpenAI publishes brutal critique of Apple lawsuit: ‘Apple is getting this wrong’
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OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit filed by Apple, accusing the tech giant of making mistakes in its claims. According to OpenAI, Apple's outside counsel emailed the wrong person after confusing two Asian last names. OpenAI has shared emails and messages that it claims show Apple got some of its facts wrong.
Apple's lawsuit, filed in July, accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets using a "coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level." Apple alleged that a former employee who joined OpenAI exploited an authentication bug and that OpenAI leadership "normalized" such conduct. OpenAI denied wrongdoing and said it was not interested in Apple's trade secrets.
In a blog post, OpenAI called Apple's lawsuit "careless, aggressive and oddly personal." The company released redacted iMessages showing Apple staff asking a former employee for files, which OpenAI referred to as "residual access." OpenAI also accused Apple's lawyers of a February email mix-up. According to the Times of India, OpenAI's public letter stated, "Apple is getting this wrong."
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